WEBVTT I SPOKE WITH A BOY HE SAYS ITWAS ALL OVER A WATER BOTTLE.PARENTS COULDN'T HELP GETTINGVISIBLY UPSET WATCHING THEVIDEO.I WANTED TO CRY WHEN I SAW ITBECAUSE WHAT IF THAT WAS MY SON,I WOULD BE SO UPSET.TAMMY: BUS DRIVER TEDDY JONES ISSEEN SHOVING A 12-YEAR-OLD BOYFROM THE TOP LANDING OF A SCHOOLBUS.THE CHILD LANDS OUTSIDE ON THECONCRETE ON HIS FACE.>> I MEAN HOW COULD DO THIS TO ACHILD.I MEAN WHETHER HE WAS DOINGSOMETHING WRONG OR NOT.TAMMY: HEATHER BOURBEAU SAYS HER11-YEAR-OLD SON WAS STANDINGBEHIND THE VICTIM ON THE BUSBEFORE GLEN ESTE MIDDLE SCHOOLSTARTED.HER SON SAYS THE VICTIM TOSSED AWATER BOTTLE OUT OF THE BUS SO JONES REACTED, BY THROWINGTHE BOY OUT OF THE BUS.>> THE BUS DRIVER JUST PUSHEDHIM OFF THE BUS BECAUSE HE THREWSOMEBODY'S WATER BOTTLE OUT AI SAID DID HE SAY ANYTHING ANDHE SAID NO HE JUST PUSHED HIM.TAMMY: BOURBEAU SAYS HER SON ANDOTHER STUDENTS REPORTED THEASSAULT. JONES HAS BEEN FIRED FROMPETERMAN TRANSPORTATION.HE'S CHARGED WITH FELONY ASSAULTAND CHILD ENDANGERING.>> OH MY GOD.IT HURTS MY STOMACH TO WATCHTHAT TO BE HONEST.TAMMY: FOR THIS GLEN ESTE MOM OFTHREE BOYS, THE PUNISHMENT ISAPPROPRIATE.>> HE SHOULDN'T BE AROUND KIDSIF HE CAN'T CONTROL HIS OWNANGER OR BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH ALITTLE BIT OF FRUSTRATION FROMKIDS.HE SHOULDN'T BE WORKING WITHKIDS.>> THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECTFROM ONE OF THE KIDS ON THE BUS,A BULLY, BUT NOT THE ACTUAL BUSPDRIVER.TAMMY: BOURBEAU SAYS THE FEELINGFROM PARENTS IS RELIEF NOW THAT JONES WON'T BE COMINGBACKTHAT MOM SAYS SHE'S COMPLAINEDTO THE BUS COMPANY ABOUT JONESUSING FOUL LANGUAGE IN FRONT OF

Bus driver seen on video shoving 12-year-old boy off school bus

Teddy Jones charged with felonious assault, child endangerment

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Updated: 11:15 AM EDT May 24, 2017

UNION TOWNSHIP, Ohio —

An Ohio school bus driver has been fired and charged with felonious assault and child endangerment after he allegedly shoved a student off the bus at Glen Este Middle School, a school in the West Clermont Local Schools district.

Jones is seen shoving the 12-year-old boy from the top landing of the school bus.

Police said the boy landed outside on the concrete on his face.

Heather Bourbeau said her 11-year-old son was standing behind the victim on the bus before classes at Glen Este Middle School started.

Her son told WLWT the victim tossed a water bottle out of the bus, so Jones reacted, by throwing the boy out of the bus.

“I mean, does he have a heart? I mean, who could do this to a child? I mean, whether he was doing something wrong or not,” Bourbeau said. “I wanted to cry when I saw it, because what if that was my son? I would be so upset.”

Bourbeau said her son and other students flagged down an adult and reported the assault.

Several Glen Este parents reacted to the video with concern.

”He shouldn't be around kids if he can't control his own anger or be able to deal with a little bit of frustration from kids,” Glen Este parent Jamie Liming said. “He shouldn't be working with kids.”

Jones is locked up in the Clermont County jail on a $150,000 cash bond.